Stable Audio 3 Medium
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: Free commercial use only below US$1M annual revenue (with registration), and the download is gated.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. Text-to-audio model for music and sound effects that can generate several minutes of audio; released 17 May 2026 with small-music and small-sfx versions. Free for commercial use under US$1M annual revenue. |
| Modality | audio |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Stability AI Community License |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | stabilityai/stable-audio-3-medium |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use Stable Audio 3 Medium
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Stability AI Community License.
Quickstart
git clone https://github.com/Stability-AI/stable-audio-3 && cd stable-audio-3 && uv sync # accept the gated licence and run hf auth login, then StableAudioModel.from_pretrained("medium") loads stabilityai/stable-audio-3-medium, as in the model cardPaste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Stable Audio 3 Medium" (stabilityai/stable-audio-3-medium) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Free commercial use only below US$1M annual revenue (with registration), and the download is gated.
- Stability AI Community License (LICENSE.md, click-through on the HF repo): free research, non-commercial and commercial use while you and your affiliates have under US$1M annual revenue; commercial users must register…
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Stable Audio 3 Medium free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · free under $1M revenue. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Stable Audio 3 Medium commercially?
Yes, under Stability AI Community License. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Stable Audio 3 Medium?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Stability AI Community License.
Source: huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-audio-3-medium, checked 8 Oct 2026.